Who Dares Wins [1982] [DVD]

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Anyway, it seems that the group is planning to take over the American Ambassador's residence during a dinner party attended by several dignitaries. They plan to demand the detonation of an atomic device over a military base in Scotland to demonstrate the destructive power of such a device and force world peace on the world. Judy dares to win!". The Australian Women's Weekly. 14 July 1982. p.137 . Retrieved 10 December 2015– via National Library of Australia.

The first scenes were shot in Portobello Road market in January 1982. The concert, speech and subsequent fight were staged at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. Skellen's house and the hostage taking was shot in Kynance Mews in South Kensington. [15] The Special Air Service (SAS) was one of several British special forces units formed in the desert campaign in North Africa during World War II. Unusually, it was also one that had survived into the Cold War era, being reactivated for the Malayan Emergency of 1948-1960. The most remarkable thing about Rose's script is that Euan Lloyd must have looked at it at some point and thought "This is a good script", which is hard to believe. Or at least "This script is adequate", which is not much easier to believe. Let's face it, though, we all wanted to be Bodie and not old Velcro-hair. Bodie looked cool and smart (he never wore jeans in any of the episodes) got the decent crumpet (who due to plot lines would conveniently die at the end of the episode), had a decent car (as long as you liked Capris) and even rode bikes.

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His portrayal of a hard-man in The Professionals earned him the role of Captain Peter Skellen in the film 'Who Dares Wins.' The terrorists' target is the residence of the American ambassador (Don Fellows), where a reception is taking place with a variety of distinguished guests. These include the U.S. Secretary of State (Richard Widmark), the British Foreign Secretary (John Woodnutt) and the head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, General Ira Potter (Robert Webber). President Reagan liked it, which meant no critic worthy of his two thumbs could be caught liking it. I liked it so much, I read everything I could on the SAS. If you enjoy watching films Maureen Dowd and Robert Scheer would never understand, this one's for you. All too few action thrillers are both intelligent and unflinchingly bellicose, the exciting action is breathlessly swift and brutal, no slow-motion languor, precise, surgical, expeditious, kill or be killed, every retaliatory action timed to the millisecond and it is this coolly pragmatic take on violence that is so frequently fetishized today which not only proves immediately striking but exhilarating, while you are well aware this is merely splendidly made escapist entertainment, there is a glacial verisimilitude to the characters steadfast actions, and the morally 'grey' areas of both parties are expertly factored in, this isn't merely just another prosaic, spoon-fed, unquestionably good surmounting Evil, as both protagonist's relentless appropriation of extreme measures to justify their disparate means expose where such terrible power can be abused to suit secret, destructive agendas. the real hero in the film is the Scottish actor who plays a fellow solider (of Collins) in the film,who plays it straight and realistic throughout

Having been accepted for training in acting by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, which he attended between 1968 and 1971, [6] [13] he drew the notice of his fellow students for an "electrifying" performance in the lead role of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. [14] Theatre career [ edit ] Lloyd's investors were willing to go with a lesser name actor as star. The producer considered a number of options before going with Lewis Collins, then best known for The Professionals. [12] Collins trained intensively for the part. [13]

The story was turned into a screenplay by the American writer Reginald Rose. Rose had written the excellent TV play and film Twelve Angry Men (1957), but he's not exactly on form in Who Dares Wins. The script is not very plausible in its character scenes or in its general conception. The writer also lets a couple of very minor Americanisms slip into the script, but these are hardly worth criticising in the circumstances. Roy Budd and Jerry & Marc Donahue – Commando (Who Dares Wins) Bande Originale du Film (1983, Vinyl)". Discogs. 11 August 1983. Euan Lloyd made one more film, Wild Geese II in 1985. Although nominally a sequel to his 1978 war film, it was more of an urban thriller in the Who Dares Wins mould, again written by Reginald Rose, and directed by former Bond editor and director Peter Hunt. Not only was the operation a stunning success but, crucially, it took place under the gaze of the world's news media. Television news crews were camped outside the embassy awaiting the latest developments, with their cameras trained on the building. The rescue mission was captured on camera and streamed on live television around the world, causing a media sensation.